UK - AS90 Ukrainian Training

The second cohort of Ukrainian recruits to be trained in the UK on AS90 self-propelled artillery guns are returning home, ready for the expected upcoming spring counteroffensive against Russia. The bespoke training, which has covered all aspects of operating and maintaining the AS90 155mm self-propelled gun system, has been under the control of the Royal School of Artillery and run by officers and soldiers of the Royal Regiment of Artillery.

 

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UK Royal Artillery conducting fire missions with 105mm L118 Light Gun and 155mm AS90 SP.

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AS90 Braveheart is a British Army 155mm self-propelled howitzer which entered service with the British Army in 1992. It is manufactured by BAE Systems Land Systems (RO Defence and formerly the Armaments Division of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd) at Barrow-in-Furness, in Cumbria. 179 have been built for the British Army.

The AS90 was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in March 2003. In July 2004, the UK Ministry of Defence announced plans to reduce the number of AS90 artillery batteries by six. Three batteries were drawn down and one AS90 regiment of three batteries was re-configured to a light gun regiment, to support a new light brigade. The changes were brought into effect in 2007.

An enhanced version of the Howitzer, the Desert AS90, has been built to provide high capability in arduous desert conditions. The Desert AS90 underwent successful trials in the Arizona Desert in 1994 and in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia in 1996. This version, with the 52-calibre barrel, is called the AS90 Braveheart. BAE Systems signed a license manufacturing agreement with HSW (Huta Stalowa Wola) of Poland for the production of the AS90 Braveheart. Two AS90 turrets were fitted to vehicles built by OBRUM of Poland.

The crew consists of the driver plus four or three operators in the cupola, a commander, a gun layer and an ammunition loader.

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Royal School of Artillery

The AS90 is a 155mm self-propelled gun that equips three field regiments of the Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Artillery. The AS90 is fitted with a 155 mm, 39-calibre gun barrel and is compatible with all standard NATO 155 mm ammunition. In trials, two AS90 guns were able to deliver a total payload of 261 kg onto a single target in less than ten seconds. An automated loading system enables the gun to fire with a burst rate of three rounds in fewer than ten seconds, an intense rate of six rounds per minute for three minutes and a sustained rate of two rounds per minute.